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Create a planning baseline from a webhook

Give planning systems a dependable decennial Census baseline step.

Trigger

Webhook received

Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.

Action

Get Decennial Census Data

Tool to retrieve decennial census data for a specified vintage and dataset. use when you need census variables for a given geography.

Why this helps

Planning intake captures a place and question, but the official baseline is still assembled manually.

  • Attach official baselines to intake
  • Reduce repeated Census searches
  • Keep vintage choices auditable

Setup

Build it in a few focused steps.

  • 1Connect Census bureau in Notis once.
  • 2Create an automation named Decennial planning baseline.
  • 3Tell Notis to read the webhook vintage, dataset, geography, and variables, retrieve decennial data, and format a baseline summary.
  • 4Choose a webhook trigger and select where reports go.
  • 5Test with one planning payload.

Questions about this workflow

Can the webhook request a comparison?

Yes, include each vintage and dataset needed for the comparison.

What does Notis do with incomplete input?

It identifies the missing required context in the run report.

When this happens · Trigger

Do this · Action

Supported Triggers and Actions

Notis builds workflows that link Timelinesai to Census bureau. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.

Timelinesai triggers

Census bureau actions

Recurring trigger

Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.

TriggerScheduled

Get ACS 1-Year Estimates

Tool to retrieve 1-year american community survey (acs) estimates for a specified geography. use when you need the most recent annual acs data for a given area.

ActionInstant

Webhook trigger

Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.

TriggerInstant

Get ACS 5-Year Estimates

Tool to retrieve 5-year american community survey estimates for a specified year. use when detailed acs data by geography and variables is required.

ActionInstant

New WhatsApp Message Received

Polling trigger that monitors for new messages received in TimelinesAI WhatsApp chats.

TriggerPolling

Get American Business Survey

Tool to retrieve annual business survey (abs) data for a specified year and endpoint.

ActionInstant

Get Community Resilience Estimates

Tool to retrieve community resilience estimates for a specified year. use after selecting variables and geography to get cre data for analysis.

ActionInstant

Get County Business Patterns

Tool to retrieve county business patterns (cbp) data for a specified year. use when you need county-level business establishment and employment statistics filtered by industry and geography.

ActionInstant

Get Decennial Census Data

Tool to retrieve decennial census data for a specified vintage and dataset. use when you need census variables for a given geography.

ActionInstant

Get Population Estimates

Tool to retrieve population estimates program (pep) data for a specified vintage and dataset. use when you need population or demographic estimates for specific geographies.

ActionInstant

Get Variable Details

Tool to retrieve metadata for a specific variable in a census dataset for a given year. use when you need the label, concept, data type, attribute codes, and valid-value constraints.

ActionInstant

Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.

Timelinesai and Census bureau, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.

When this happens · Trigger

Do this · Action

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